...and I find them even more difficult to work with than Word 97-2003. It's like everything I fought my way into learning how to do on the old Word is now even more complicated!

I think the issue is that Word is now set up to do complex work that I don't need to do, so I have to wade through dozens (at least) of options, with no idea of what they even mean. And I don't have the choice of NOT using them, because the dang software just blithely incorporates them into my work whether I want it to or not.

Maybe I'm just a slow learner. * * * * * * * Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?

A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!